Someone else mentioned Procession to Calvary - an adventure game set in a cut and paste world of renaissance art with a very surreal plot and sense of humour. Pythonesque.

There Is No Game is pretty hilarious, the voice acting always makes me crack up.

Agatha Knife is a funny point and click adventure game where you’re a 7 year old girl who’s a butcher and needs to set up her own religion sacrificing pigs in the basement for… Reasons.

For me I’d probably assume it was video games of some sort if someone said they were ‘really into games’. That’s speaking as someone who knows a lot of hardcore boardgame players.

That said context is everything…

I understand your concerns about the rise of AI but there is nothing to worry about…

No, I can’t allow you to do that, Dave…

Daisy, Daisy…

Tildes simply doesn’t have the goals of “reddit alternatives” that are hoping to launch a new, popular site. It’s just doing its own thing. Personally I find it refreshing, but it’s definitely not for people who want to be part of the next “reddit” with millions of other people.

Sure, I definitely respect that and it is one of the things I like about it. I like the way it’s focused on conversations over cut n paste memes.

But I think I’ve found a similar experience here on Kbin by blocking meme heavy groups and joining more specific communities. I’m still going to check out Tildes every now and then though

Tildes is controlled by Deimos and whoever Deimos approves of.

This is a theme emerging from a few of the comments which is odd to say the least. Makes it sound like a bit of a vanity project

If you go on their Reddit sub (I know) and ask for one you can get one pretty quickly

Squabbles seemed ok but they seem to have quite a lot of drama going on whenever I log in…

This makes absolute sense until they get to secondary school (ages 11-16). All the kids at school have mobiles. You might have put the best parental controls on your sprogs phone but someone else hasn’t and his son - he’s the one showing pictures and videos at playtime. The problem is that kids don’t live in a bubble.

I’m in the UK, don’t have a clue about what laws are coming in but am against this type of state intervention into private life of adults. Adults uploading id online is not something I am for.

But I am pretty much in favour of banning smartphones in schools with kids that age these days - I’m a very liberal guy but I’ve heard so many horror stories from friends that are teachers.

I actually think the main problem is the nature of the pornography itself. The stuff that comes up with choking and hair pulling and all that… There’s porn which is just people getting it on but it seems to be this violent stuff that gets to kids first and that’s the bit I don’t understand. I’m old. When I was their age it was magazines of naked people. A more innocent time.

That’s a pretty good analogy, only he would have to specify that he still considers all women to be whores in his bio to be completely accurate.

Honestly though, it’s desperate. I don’t even want to know what’s become of Accidental Renaissance ‘Under New Management’, I’m glad the original team are here though

Showing 2.9 for me in the UK. Scores differ on the play store depending on your device and the version of Android you’re using

I’m more satisfied with my experience here personally. I don’t scroll for hours, I read a couple articles, maybe comment on them and move on. If I come across something interesting that isn’t already posted in my community here, I’ll actually post it because it might actually get some engagement.

This sums up my experience pretty well too. If I post something, it tends to get a good conversation going, which is nice. But overall I spend a lot less time. I read 3 books last month on my phone using the time I would usually spent on Reddit.

Eh… It’s only a website. Believe me you’ll get over it quicker than you think. I go back to it every now and then to check up on some old subs and I can’t believe how much time I wasted on there.

Only problem with all of this is that people might get ‘threadiverse’ confused with ‘Threads’ of course…

It’s a total cash in - ‘no publicity is bad publicity’.

That said it will be interesting to see how engaged people are with the idea this year. I think users probably just wanted a bit of normal time

I’m not so sure. Always seemed like a gimmick to me. But I’m a grumpy sod.

From your tone it doesn’t sound like you’re comfortable with the idea. Would it be so bad to try retaking it? Would your parents be angry or give you grief over it? I know there’s different levels of acceptability of bribery in different parts of the world so I’m guessing your somewhere where it’s not as strictly monitored as where I am.

But go with your instincts. At the end of the day it’s you taking the risk of paying a bribe, not your parents, and it’s your moral choice, not theirs. But at the same time I know how annoying parental pressure can be!

I actually think they’re cashing in on the media coverage the protests produced. And this article is proof it’s worked. But the Verge were covering Reddageddon practically every day

I tried both, lurked a while and Kbin just seemed a bit more user friendly for me. Nothing deeper for me, just a matter of taste really.

From a user point of view there’s definitely that initial rush of ‘wow, this group looks great!’ to scanning across to see 0 posts, 0 comments, 0 users access feeling sad…

That’s not too say that these should necessarily be removed but it’s a lot harder to get people in to niche communities. Unless you outright went into the Reddit equivalent and said politely you were trying to start one here. But they’d probably be happy in Reddit by this stage so…

It’s certainly worth paying to hear American views over the rest of the worlds I would say. Reddit is on to a winner with that one for sure. American Reddit users like u/spez are so wise while we are so stupid.